(ITV) The chief of the Metropolitan Police has suggested the law may need tightening after his force decided a video of a man chanting “jihad” at a pro-Palestine protest on Saturday did not show any offence being committed.
Sir Mark Rowley, following a meeting with the home secretary in which he was told officers must “use the full force of the law” at protests, said recent events may have shown the need for new legislation.
“The law that we’ve designed around hate crime and terrorism over recent decades hasn’t taken full account of the ability of extremist groups to steer around those laws and propagate some pretty toxic messages through social media and those lines probably need redrawing.”
